1 July 2022
Bloomsbury Fashion Central and Bloomsbury Design Library have been updated with new featured themes that are now live.
Their Featured Content brings together free articles, book chapters, business cases, object images and videos on their respective topics of Menswear: Meaning, Making and Masculinity and Modernism and Design guiding users to discover a variety of helpful content types across formats while supporting teaching or research.
Bloomsbury Fashion Central: Menswear: Meaning, Making and Masculinity
How has masculinity been embodied through dress across ancient and modern cultures? Where do tailors begin when creating and modifying garments to fit an individual’s unique body and style? And how do styles of menswear and cultural attitudes towards it differ throughout the world?
From zoot suits and the evolution of the male skirt, to regional tailoring and the aesthetics of young men and fashion in modern Japan, this is the story of men's garments and the people who wear them.
Users can explore the meaning, making and masculinity which underpins menswear through our curated content including articles, business cases, catwalk images and more.
Bloomsbury Design Library: Modernism and Design: Remaking a World
As a new world was emerging in the wake of the wars across the first half of the 20th century, designers were reacting to stark changes in the shape, pace, and machinery of modern life.
Design would be at the heart of the world’s radical remaking.
Users will learn more about the impact of the Festival of Britain in 1951 on planning and interiors, construction of schools and the rebuilding of national identity. From Reykjavik’s Church of Hallgrímur to the Bank of Finland murals, they can discover the aesthetic and ideological developments in art, architecture and design in Scandinavia from 1930-50.
The feature also focuses on the new color models which emerged in reaction to advances in colour science, in a chapter on 'high modern' art. Mid-century American design sensibility provided an alternative to European Modernism, with influences on domestic design and on screen in sitcoms such as I Love Lucy, as our content reveals. Users can chart the rise in Asia in the status and popularity of the design profession in the mid-century period, through the careers of influential practitioners: Kenji Ekuan, Minnette De Silva and Kan Tai-Keung.